Cibse news Tel: 020 8675 5211 | Fax: 020 8675 5449 | email: secretary@cibse.org President: Peter Kinsella Ceng FCIBSe | Chief executive: Stephen matthews Cutting-edge research to be showcased at Technical symposium Simple buildings, better buildings? Delivering performance through engineered solutions The 2015 CIBSE Technical Symposium is fast approaching, and the papers are going through a final review by the 60-strong scientific committee. Now in its fifth year, the symposium will be at University College London on 15 and 16 April. Thanks to sponsorship and the support of a university host, event costs have been kept to a minimum. However, there has been no skimping on the quality of papers and presentations, and an unrivalled range of material will be available as well as opportunities for networking and discussion. There will be more than 50 presentations over the two days, with speakers from around the world offering insight into cutting-edge research, application and development in the expansive area of building services engineering. There will also be a mock legal arbitration at the end of day one. This will give a realistic and entertaining insight into the increasingly litigious activity that can derail unsuspecting building services engineers. The protagonists will be lawyers Young achiever with head for business scoops CIBSE award A commercially-minded young engineer has won the achievement in management and enterprise accolade at the Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards. Andrew Hudson, managing director of G&H Sustainability, was given the award for his efforts in developing the division of the G&H Group. The award recognises the best examples of entrepreneurial spirit and management skills needed to succeed in todays highly competitive business environment. Judges were impressed by Hudsons vision to approach the G&H Group in 2011 with the idea of setting up a sustainability business, specialising in low carbon building technologies. In addition to this, he completed his MEng in building services engineering, and graduated from Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme. Hudson (above, centre) is also chair of the CIBSE Yorkshire regions Young Engineers Network. advises the board and the President on professional practices of building services engineering. This includes maintaining the code of conduct and administering the disciplinary procedures. The committee is made up of 10 corporate CIBSE members, who meet three times a year at CIBSEs offices in Balham, and sometimes hold ad hoc meetings. To apply, you will need to be why you are interested in the position to Carilyn Clements, director of membership, at cclements@cibse.org director for building services at MSPS, said that trainee internships were vital for the industry: As well as offering a good opportunity to young, budding engineers, it is critical that we support training programmes in order to attract intelligent and enthusiastic young people into engineering. Lauren Jones at the CIBSE West Midlands dinner southern region 2015 Yacht rally on right course The CIBSE Southern Region 2015 Yacht Rally will take place on Saturday 6 June 2015. The event is open to all connected with building services, and will be held in the eastern Solent, following a challenging course using only wind energy. A dinner and prizegiving will be held in the evening, on the viewing platform of Portsmouths Spinnaker Tower. From this vantage point, 100m above the water, there are spectacular views of Portsmouth, the Solent and the Downs. This is a great social event for sailors and non-sailors. If you can put together a team, need a boat, would like to crew on a boat or if you just want to come along for the view contact d.pope@ popeconsulting.co.uk soon, as numbers will be limited. read all about it A new edition of the SDAR Journal is now available. Published jointly by the Dublin Institute of Technology and CIBSE Ireland, this edition includes papers on interior lighting design, the implementation of ISO50001 in sports stadia, and a case study of a BIM-based HVAC manufacturing process. SDAR Journal is free, and can be read at arrow.dit.ie/sdar save the date Action for Water talk by Dr Saburo Murakawa, Dr Kanako Toyosada and Dr Cheng-Li made the biggest impact. It included an overview of activities undertaken by the Asia Saving Water Council, which actsas a platform to share updated water-efficiency information and technology. It is currently focused on academic activities from universities or researchers and projects supported by governments or CIBSE ANZ launches soft-landings strategy In response to the ongoing challenge of creating buildings that deliver on their promises, the Australia and New Zealand CIBSE region is staging a series of seminars to launch the ANZ Soft Landings Framework. This seminar series aims to highlight the benefits of applying the framework to support building design and delivery. The series will be led by Roderic Bunn, principal consultant at BSRIA, and Hywel Davies, CIBSE technical director, will co-present on the subject of building logbooks. Bunn, recognised as a leading authority on soft landings, is an excellent communicator, and has received widespread acclaim for the 2010 ANZ seminar series. The ANZ Soft Landings Framework has the potential to revolutionise the building procurement and delivery process in Australia and New Zealand, Practices Committee, which standards. Email a brief CV and Tales from Chicago SoPHE cements links with US plumbing professionals To further develop the CIBSE Society of Public Health Engineers (SoPHE), Steve Vaughan, of the SoPHE technical committee, attended the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) 2014 convention, in Chicago. Now in its 50th year, ASPE has more than 6,000 members worldwide, and Bill Hughes, ASPE president, explained how the ASPE 2012-15 Strategic Blueprint has positively shaped the societys progress in recent years. Its objectives include reaching out to contractors, building stronger relationships with the inspector and regulatory community, and fostering relationships with other international organisations. There were more than 1,000 seminars at the conference, but the Global Thinking and Local by the CIBSE Professional in maintaining professional Trainee engineer top of the class after Five Counties win Awards aim to promote merits of the building services profession and encourage more to join A trainee mechanical services engineer has won the CIBSE Five Counties Award for the West Midlands, in recognition of her achievements in the Ordinary National Certificate Building Services course. Lauren Jones, of multidisciplinary design and engineering firm Morgan Sindall Professional Services (MSPS), was nominated by the South & City Birmingham College, where she studies. She said: The awards are very well-respected across the industry, and I believe the recognition will benefit my future career. There arent enough young people pursuing engineering, and the awards are a great way New members are being sought or Fellow with an interest restricted to one team per organisation of up to five people, led by an SLL member. The event will be held on 24 March, at Rose Bruford College, Sidcup. For more information visit www.cibse.org/sll to advertise this worthwhile profession. The awards which have been running for more than 30 years were presented at the CIBSE West Midlands annual dinner. They aim to promote the profession and encourage more young people into the industry. Simon Steed, associate Committee seeks more members a CIBSE Associate, Member ready, steady, light! sll competition now open Entries are now open for the Society of Light and Lightings 2015 Ready Steady Light competition. Up to 17 teams will compete to design an exterior lighting scheme in three hours. Entry, which costs 150, is cross-examining a contractor, a designer and an expert witnesses. Proceedings will be overseen by a senior industry arbitrator. Meanwhile, the CIBSE Schools Group, CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group, and the International Building Performance Simulation Association will all lead focused technical sessions. A reception at the end of the first day will be held at Millbank Tower, and will provide an opportunity to mingle with delegates, speakers, and senior industry members. For details, and to book for two days of CPD and networking, visit www.cibse.org/symposium and these seminars provide an opportunity for members to take a leadership position. The seminars will be held on: 10 March, Perth 12 March, Melbourne 16 March, Auckland 19 March, Sydney A celebratory dinner and awards evening officially launching the framework will take place on 20 March, in Sydney. It will be attended by several CIBSE board members, including President, Peter Kinsella, and CEO, Stephen Matthews. On the night, there will be a presentation of awards to students and young engineers, as well as fundraising on behalf of the CIBSE Benevolent Fund. The ANZ Soft Landings Framework can be found here. This version of the framework has been developed and tailored to the needs and specific contexts of Australia and New Zealand. enterprises to help developing countries such as Vietnam. Vaughans visit gave him a valuable insight into the US plumbing design and installation industry. He felt the UK was more advanced in areas such as water conservation and reclaimed water systems, but fell behind on design code or guides. SoPHE plans to continue engaging with similar societies at an international level. The CIBSE Building Performance Conference and Exhibition will be returning to the QEII Centre in Westminster on 3-4 November 2015. The conference will deliver 10 hours of CPD focusing on efficient design, construction, maintenance and operation of buildings. For more information on attending or exhibiting visit www.cibse. org/conference Industry remembers BsrIas strategic thinker Graeme Baker, former chief executive of the Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA), died on Christmas Eve 2014. He made an outstanding contribution to advancing the technology and practices of the construction industry sector concerned with environmental services in buildings. Baker joined the Heating and Ventilating Research Association, the forerunner of BSRIA, in 1967. He was recognised for his efforts in encouraging research teams to disseminate their findings, and promoting the uptake of these by industry. As a result Baker was widely consulted, informally, by a number of government departments. While he was at the helm of BSRIA, the association won many contracts from the European Commission, as well as the UK government, increasing the availability of research results to industry. He also encouraged industry to use the Research Association for investigations, and and systems tests, which were valuable in strengthening the technological base of the sector. His involvement in panindustry bodies led to Baker being consulted by industry and government, and this continued after he retired in 1999. Baker who thought clearly and strategically, and was generous in his support of others was made an OBE in 1998. He was also granted an Honorary Fellowship by CIBSE. 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